Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the Us and Pakistan: Spies and Terrorists

ISBN-13: 9780815374022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 132 str.

Cara N. Cilano

Opis

Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan examines post-9/11 American spy fictions alongside Pakistani novels that draw upon many of the same figures, tropes, and conventions. As the Pakistani texts re-place spy fiction’s conventions, they offer another vantage point from which to view the affective appeals common to these conventions’ usual deployment in American texts. This book argues that the appropriation by Pakistani writers of these conventions insistently tracks how the formulaic and popular nature of post-9/11 American espionage thrillers forwards and reinforces "appropriate" affective responses, often linked to domestic sites and relations, to "terrorism."

Spis treści

Introduction: Reading Spies and "Terrorists" 1. Genre 2. Spy 3. Proxy 4. "Terrorist" Conclusion: Drones

O autorze

Cara Cilano is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA. She is author of Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State (Routledge, 2013) and National Identities in Pakistan: The 1971 War in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction (Routledge, 2010), as well as editor of From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the US (2009).